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The contentious magazine that transformed the jewish left into the neoconservative right Title Page Dedication Epigraph Preface PART I - Outsiders 1 - Loneliness IMMIGRANTS YOUNG TROTS MARXMANSHIP PRESIDING GENIUS YOUNG MEN FROM THE BOROUGHS ALIENS OF UNEASY FEET THE GOLDEN BOY ON DELANCEY 2 - Independence “WHEN THE MORNING WAS WAKING OVER THE WAR” IS AMERICA EXILE? RETURN TO ZION NEW YORK OF THE EAST 3 - Discovery JEWISHNESS IS TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICANISM “BY THE WATERS OF THE GRAND CONCOURSE” BORN AGAIN IMAGINING THE JEWS THE AGE OF CRITICISM 4 - Anti-Communists RED JEWS ENEMIES ABROAD: UNCLE JOE ENEMIES AT HOME: JUMPING JOE THE END OF THE BEGINNING PART II - Between No and Yes 5 - The Devil’s Decade GODHEAD OUR NEGRO PROBLEM LA GUERRE EST FINIE HOT DAMN, VIETNAM 6 - Mugged by Reality COUNTERCULTURE CARNIVAL THE PAROCHIALISM OF UNIVERSALISM AUNTIE SEMITISM VILIFICATIONS AND SCHLEMIELS A CLASS FOR ITSELF 7 - Come Home, Democrats NAME-CALLING THE NAME OF DESIRE ANGRY SAXONS RETREATING TO THE TRIBE PART III - Insiders 8 - If I Am Not For Myself KEEPERS OF THE JEWISH CONSCIENCE “OH MY AMERICA, MY NEWFOUNDLAND!” THE PUBLIC INTEREST AFFIRMATIVE DISCRIMINATION SHOOTING HEROINES VIRTUCRATS GOD’S COUNTRY AND MINE OF MARKETS AND MORALS LITERARY LEGIONNAIRES ART AND ARDOR: AMERICAN JEWISH WRITING, TAKE TWO 9 - Zealpolitik A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS UNREALISTS A FLOCK OF HAWKS FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH WHO KILLED COMMUNISM? AFTERGLOW: THE 1990S “IN ITS PROSPERITY YOU SHALL PROSPER” DESIGNER KAFTANS ASSAILING OSLO LEAVING IT 10 - World War IV BEST IN THE BUSINESS NEOCONSERVATISM IN POWER WAGING DEMOCRACY ISLAMISM SADDAM TWICE MUGGED STAYING THE COURSE Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index Copyright Page